Hi I am hoping one of you good people out there can advise me. I have two SATA hard drives both working fine and I thought why not install the old non SATA H.D. from my dead computer and use it for games and the like. I configured it as a second slave but Xp did not like that one little bit, I tried configuring it as “Cable Select” not that I have a clue what it means, but Xp turned it’s nose up at that, someone suggested configuring it as a slave of the slave but alas those waters are way too deep for me. Can anyone tell me how to make all three H.D.’s live and work in peace and harmony? Thank you.
2007-03-12 04:35:37 · 3 answers · asked by ♣ My Brainhurts ♣ 5 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
Assuming your "non SATA" drive is IDE/ATA, you should be able to use the cable select option. Make sure that your BIOS recognizes the drive. Also be sure that BIOS is configured to boot from you SATA drive, since you want to add the IDE/ATA drive as additional storage only. If there is another device on the same ribbon cable as the drive you're adding, you may want to try setting one as master and the other as slave.
2007-03-12 04:42:26 · answer #1 · answered by whodeyflya 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you have a standard motherboard then it will be two drives per channel. So leave the existing drives as they are and put the old one on the same channel as the CD drive.
2007-03-12 04:40:01 · answer #2 · answered by Del Piero 10 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Install the EIDE drive into a external USB case. Fairly cheap.
http://www.geeks.com/products.asp?cat=CSE
2007-03-12 04:41:38 · answer #3 · answered by acklan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋